Catalogue of valuable printed books & manuscripts, autograph letters and historical documents, Oriental manuscripts and miniatures, &c., comprising selected portions of three old libraries largely of early English literature, including Churchyard (T.) The Worthines of Wales, 1587; Crompton (R.) A Short Declaration of the Ende of Traitors, 1587; Nixon (A.) London's Dove, 1612, Whetstone (G.) The English Myrror, 1586; R. (I.) The Worlde, or and Historicall Description, etc., 1601; a Collection of the Works of James I, 1604-21; Capgrave (J.) Nova Legenda, 1516; and an interesting XV Century MS. of the Brut Chronicle. A series of ten very rare early year books, the property of Mrs. P. G. Hanson; Lodge (Thomas) Scillaes Metamophosis, 1589; the property of Mrs. Hill, The Ashes, Hothfield, Ashford, Kent; Rare English plays, including Shakespeare, Richard II, 1634, and Richard III, 1634; Rowley, The Birth of Merlin, 1662; etc. A pure copy of the First Mainz Cicero, 1465; a fine copy of the Bible printed by Rusch at Strassburg, 1479, with other Early Bibles; illuminated religious and secular manuscripts, etc. Lord Glenclairn's copy of the Kilmarnock Burns, 1786; the excessively rare Stevenson Leaflet, 'The Laureat Ste'enson to the Thamson Class," 1885; etc. the autograph letters, etc. include a Collection of Songs and Dances by John Dowland and others, ca. 1600, the property of Mrs. M. L. Downland ; a fine letter of Ludwig von Beethoven; an Interesting series of letters of W. H. Hudson; the Journals of Sir Augustus Foster, Minister to the U.S.A., 1804-7 and 1810-11, the manuscript (partly autograph) of Lope de Vega's play "La desdichada Estefania", the property of Gerald, H. Villiers, Esq., C. M. G.; and collections of letters, etc. of the rulers of France and England, also oriental manuscripts and miniatures, including a very fine Armenian Bible; an important Early Ethiopic Gospels, with numerous miniatures; and an extensive series of Princely and other Portraits, Subject Drawings, etc., acquired in the XVIII Century from Indian Collections, the property of Sir Malcolm MacGregor of Macgregor, Bt. : auction, London, Sotheby & Co., on Monday, 15th of November, 1926, and three following days

Date : 1926

Type : Livre / Book

Langue / Language : anglais / English

Ricci, Seymour de (1881-1942) (Ancien possesseur / former owner)